The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-11-12
ALL THE NEWS
OF WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED In
BRIEF SPACE.
Incidents and Accidents and Matters
Miscellaneous.
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| Miscellaneous.
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i The Charleston School Board has
awarded contract for a $4,000
school house
Typhoid fever, in it's most malig-
nant form, is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent on Pawpaw creek in Ma
rion county.
/. In quarrel at Kannawha Falls.
Friday. man named Grady broke
the neck of companion, death re-
sulting instantly.
Jimmie Jones, an enterprising cit
izen of Jefferson county, has invent
ed a machine which he calls smoke
! pump. 1t is used for pumping
, smoke into holes where rabbits, foxes
and other animals take refuge, and
will cause them to come out within
a very short time.
Thomas III. Mason, of the West
Virginia Democrat, by the acciden-
tai discharge of gun, whilst hunt
ing on Saturday last, lost the fore
finger of the left hand. The returns
from fall cunning are beginning to
come in. This is handsome be-
ginning that we sincerely regret to
chronicle.
). 1t is said that Rev. Father Tracy,
of Weston, who was assaulted and
stabbed few days ago by bar room
ruffian in hotel at Weston, is not
recovering from his wounds in a
satisfactory manner and that they
are likely to prove much more seri-
GUS than they were at first pro-
nounced. Blood poisoning is feared
j There are at present ninety three
pupils in the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Asylum at Romney. OF these fifty
seven are deaf and thirty-six blind.
This includes two colored pupils in
Baltimore. The school is reported
to be in excellent condition with
everything moving along nicely I'M
der the new administration of Super
intendent Gilkeson.
The Savery Pulp and Paper Com
pany have force of about 800 men
at work at Harper's Ferry. A great
deal of work has already been done
on the company's property on the
Shenandoah river, and the founda-
ton for the buildings there are be-
ing rapidly pushed toward, dams
built, canals cleaned out, etc. Work
has also been commenced on the old
arsenal grounds along the Potomac
river.
An affray took place at Chenille
a few days since, on the first day Of
court, between Doyle Snider and
Samuel McHenry, in which Snider
was badly stabbed in the left side
near the heart. McHenry was
promptly arrested and bound over
to appear at court. For some rea-
son no Indictment was found against
him. An old trouble led to the
difficulty. Snider is recovering slow
lily.
At Tunnelton, on the b. & O., there
is nine-year old prodigy, named
Walter Lee Cockrell, who makes all
on-lookers stare with wonder at the
way be manipulates telegraph key
and starts the Gagged lightning over
the wires of the world He is no
taller than walking cane, but not
withstanding his size and age, he is
a full dedged telegraph operator in
all it's branches. He is still attend
ing school and is in the sixth reader.
John Higgins, of Littleton, while
under the influence of whisky, Thurs
day night, attempted to ride his
horse across the railroad bridge at
the east end of town. The horse got
to the center of the bridge when he
fell between the ties, and the man
went overheard into the creek, but
fortunately neither were seriously
hurt. The express was then due,
but it was few minutes late, which
saved disastrous wreck and doubt
less many lives.
Meredith Workman, who has
spent the greater part of his long
life in the penitentiaries of Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio,
but who during his entire career, has
never committed any crime save
larceny, and burglary, in view of
larceny, has announced that he will
give public lecture at the Green
brier church, on his life, crimes and
imprisonments, on the second Sun
day in November. which will be next
Sabbath. Workman is klepto-
maniac.
Jennie Martin, young women
employed at Henry Copeman's, in
Preston county, met with painful
accident on last Saturday. Wish
ing to build fire under a kettle in
the yard to do some washing, she
took shovel full of hot Goals from
the kitchen stove and started to 90
into the yard, when the wind blew a
spark against her dress setting it
on fire. Before the fire could be ex-
tinguished her clothing was almost
consumed and the flesh burned
badly.
l The Moundsville papers of the
current issue contain meager refer
ence to a heavy robbery recently
committed in the suburbs of that
town. An aged lady, known to her
friends and acquaintance as "Grand-
mother" Adams, deposited $575 in
what she supposed to be safe hid
ing place about the house. This
was three months ago. A few days
ago Mrs. Adams, had occasion to
use some of the money and went to
the spot where she had secreted the
cash, but none of it could be found,
every cent having been stolen.
The Western Settlers Chosen Specific.
With every advance of emigration
into the far West, new demand is